Abortion Law

April 12, 1985

MADRID, SPAIN — A law which legalized abortions in cases where a fetus was defective, the pregnancy was the result of rape or the mother's life was in danger was overturned Thursday by the Constitutional Tribunal. Cited in the ruling: Article 15 of Spain's constitution which says, ''All have the right to life and to physical and moral integrity.'' A government spokesman: ''The ruling is inconvenient but it does not say that abortion in itself is unconstitutional, just that the law as it stands does not conform to the constitution.'' He promised a revised law would be submitted very soon. The 1983 law had caused widespread protests in Spain because of the Roman Catholic Church teaching that forbids abortion on any grounds.